Tenant ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid work for unlawfully subletting home

16/10/2017

In most cases, a tenant needs their landlord’s consent before they can sublet their home, otherwise they risk breaking the term of their tenancy agreement and on that basis, a private landlord can take action to evict their tenant.

The Mansfield Building Society has launched a new mortgage product specifically designed to allow buy-to-let investors to purchase or remortgage a property at up to 80% loan-to-value, subject to a borrowing rate of 3.99%.

Government has made landlords ‘public enemy number one’, says Tory councillor

13/10/2017

A Camden councillor who was prosecuted last year by the council he works for in north west London after failing to carry out improvement works to a rented property he owns in Primrose Hill has slammed the government for demonising landlords and effectively making them ‘public enemy number one’....

Buy-to-let landlords in the UK over the age of 55 could be entitled to almost £50 billion via equity release, Retirement Advantage estimate.

Research combined the most recent average house price with its own equity release calculator to determine that £47 billion could be available to over-55 buy-to-let landlords by means of equity release....